Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:47:22 +0200 | Subject | Re: Problems in 1.3.93 |
| |
On 22 Apr 96 at 12:45, Andrew Walker wrote:
> I know its not really an argument, but SVR4, Solaris, HP-UX, SunOS4 etc. > all have mandatory locking. > > -Andy ...but after reading the manuals (HP-UX) we decided not to use it at all. It's too easy to get bad deadlocks. We prefer to explicitly flock() a file.
BTW: HP-UX 10.01 says that "Only advisory record locking is implemented for NFS files." (That is even the s-bit won't cause implicit flock()s; you must do it explicitly). Maybe we can make both parties happy.
Ulrich Windl > > > -- > Andy Walker Kvaerner Engineering a.s. > Andrew.Walker@lysaker.kvaerner.no P.O. Box 222, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway > > ......if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence...... > > >
| |